Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General "Party healer" concerns

My Ranger main has a healing spell too but I am finding it really difficult without a Rogue, I killed him when he tried to knife me. Good luck getting Shadowheart if you are Gith.

By building a custom party by starting a LAN game and joining it yourself 3 times.

1. Start a new Multiplayer Game, choose the LAN tab and click Create.
2. Launch the game to get into Character creation. I advise creating your first character now.
3. Alt-tab out and use the executable – not the launcher – to start up the game, it will create a new instance. Join the LAN game you created.
4. Repeat for the other characters.
5. Once everyone has a character created, and their “dream” character created, choose “Venture Forth”.
6. As soon as you’ve done that, immediately alt-tab out and close the other three instances of the game, otherwise your CPU/GPU will have a bad time.

My opinion is that one of Larian's top priorities should be doing a better job of having the game teach you how to play well. What you're describing is currently far beyond my skill level and the skill level of a lot of players and the game does not do a good job of telling players what they need to know to be good at the game. It leaves a lot of stuff up to the player to figure out without guidance and when you're outnumbered in pretty much every fight, that's not a good thing. The game should not take for granted what the player will figure out and it absolutely needs to assume that a new player does not know D&D rules and systems. I only realized how important using the environment was here on the forums and I'm someone who has been playing cRPGs for close to a decade.

It's a big problem with this genre of games in general. I still remember how hard it was to play bg2 for the first time. If you had no knowledge in dnd you would have to first read a lot because you have so much data on screen and you want to choose attributes and figure out what is best for your character. And then spells were a nightmare to figure out because the description was long and didn't really indicated what is better and Tac0 and saving throws... Boy that was a nightmare lol. Modern games are a little better (in pillars of eternity things are much more clear for example) but in the end the price you pay for choices is the initial confusion.